Hillsboro recorder. (Hillsboro, N.C.) 1887-18??, 1887-08-25
CURRENT NOTES.
WHAT rs GOING ON IN THE NEW
AND OLD WORLDS.
Pom PhotoxrnphIefs Of Interesting Events In
Europe. Asia, Africa. the Dominions, and
the Islands Of the Ses.

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Europe. Asia, Africa. the Donations, and
the Islands Of the Sea.
Rev. Sam Jones preached at Round
Lake, N. Y, to audiences literally pack
ing the great auditorium.
Five fatal accidents to Alpine tourists
are reported from Zurich, Switzerland,
making eighteen deaths in the Alps
within month.
John Joyce, q well-known highway
man, was sentenced Ia New York to
twenty-four years and nine months in the
State prison at hard labor.
Russia decidedly objects to Prince Fer
dinand occupying the Bulgarian throne.
France tacitly backs up Russia, by de-
clining to have any official relations with
the prince.
A cyclone ravaged great part of the
southern France. IL was the seyerest In
the department Of Ardenes, where num-
Der of houses were destroyed and several
persons we're killed. The storm was Sc
we're at Bordeaux.
The murderers Of James B. Duvall, o
| Southern man, was sentenced each to ten
| years imprisonment at Santa Rosa, Mex
ico A man In the court room made q
very insulting remark about the dead
/ man and Americans generally, and he
got ten years imprisonment as well.
The tenants on the Ponsonby estate in
Ireland, have engaged civil engineer to
supervise the construction of works of
defense in preparation for expected eyic-
tions. Barricades are being erected and
trenches and drains made, and in case Of
Of emergency the farms will be flooded
from the bog. .E-
Two dynamite cartridges were ex-
ploded on the West Glare Railway bridge
at Ennis, Ireland. No serious damage
was done. Two other cartridges were
found on the bridge, which had failed TO
explode. The town hall at Crusheen,
county Glare, was fired into but no
damage was done.
J. X. Page, book-keeper of the large
wholesale stationery house Of G. o.
Beachman q Co., Of Montreal, Canada,
raised twenty-five dollar check to $685.
600 on the Jaques Cartier bank, cashed
il and absconded. He has been specu-
lating In the bucket shops, and it Is said
lost VI, 900 in one Of the establishments.
Archbishop Corrigan, Of New York, has
demanded Of Rev. DR.. Curran an expla-
nation Nof the latter's recent appearance
with DIR. McGlynn az public meeting Of
the United Labor party. DIR. Curran was
not penitent, and on being requested by
the archbishop TO apologize for his action
refused TO do 80. He was then warned
not to repeat the offense.
John ]. Reilly, foreman in the scratch
shop Of Rathbun, Sard q Co.'s, stove
foundry, disappeared recently and his
body was found in an oven for baking
ladies'. Il is presumed he went in there
and laying down, fell asleep. Fire was
started and the door Of the oven was then
locked. His presence not being noticed,
he was baked for about forty hours.
Two Canadian steamers, the Hastings
shd :he Kathleen, were seized by the
custom.hDuse officers at Charlotte, N Y.
Tie seizure was made on the ground tnat
neither Of the boats had been inspected
by United States inspectors. The for
feiture Is $500, and the boats were al
lowed TO return TO Toronto upon giving
bonds to the amount Of $1,000.
A disease said to be Texas fever, has
broken among cattle in Oswego, N. Y.
John Q. Rowe brought herd OF twenty
eight cows from jefferson county TO
butcher for market. Seven were killed
and sold, when il was discovered that
the others had Texas fever. The cattle
took the disease from pasture where
car load Of Texas cattle were received
two months ago.
An election In Northwick division Of
Cheshire, England, 10 GIL the vacancy
caused By the death Of 7. Yerdin, liber-
al.unionist, resulted IN another victory
for the Gladstones. The votes stood:
Drummer, Gladstonian, 5,112; Lord Hen
" Grosvener, liberal.unionist, 3,gs3.
Grosvener Il son Of the duke Of West
minister. In the last election, when the
hberal,unionist candidate was successful,
the vote was as follows: Verdin, 4,416;
Drummer, home rule, 3,00S.
The president Of the Worlds woman's
Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Mar
garct Bright Ducas, of London, England,
and Miss Frances &. willard, OF Chicago,
Ill, vice president for the United States;
Miss Hannah Whitall Smith, of philadel.
phia, secretary, have sent out q call 10
every Christian woman in every land and
Of every denomination who are interested
In temperance reform, 10 observe the 18th
and 18th Of November next a. days Of
prayer, for the success Of the work In